In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga.
The Siberian taiga in the Abakan district. Six members of the Lykov family lived in this remote wilderness for more than 40 years—utterly isolated and more than 150 miles from the nearest human settlement. (Wiki Commons).
Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the
cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a
still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of straggly pine and
birch forests scattered with sleeping bears and hungry wolves;
steep-sided mountains; white-water rivers that pour in torrents through
the valleys; a hundred thousand icy bogs. This forest is the last and
greatest of Earth's wildernesses. It stretches from the furthest tip of
Russia's arctic regions as far south as Mongolia, and east from the
Urals to the Pacific: five million square miles of nothingness, with a
population, outside a handful of towns, that amounts to only a few
thousand people.
For the rest of the story: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/For-40-Years-This-Russian-Family-Was-Cut-Off-From-Human-Contact-Unaware-of-World-War-II-188843001.html
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